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Uncertainty over Brexit may have had a negative impact on car production, but Brexit itself will boost that industry very considerably indeed.

In order to retain their large British market, and it is for example Volkswagen's largest in the world outside Germany, the Continental car manufacturers will have to set up in this country. And they will. The business of business is business.

Electric cars are marvellous. Like trains, they can be run, not on imported oil, but on domestically generated electricity. Where would you charge them? Well, where did you refuel cars until someone set up the facilities? The business of business is business.

Making possible many good things, including an all-of-the-above transport policy, there needs to be an all-of-the-above energy policy based around civil nuclear power and this country's vast reserves of coal. Proponents of wind turbines, how do you think that steel is manufactured?

Another hung Parliament is coming, and we need our people to hold the balance of power in it. A new party will be registered before House of Commons rises for the summer recess, even if I have to pay for it myself, ongoing lawfare or no ongoing lawfare.

And I will stand for Parliament here at North West Durham even if I can raise only the deposit, which I could do by going pretty overdrawn, although that was not how I was brought up. I would still prefer to raise the £10,000 necessary to mount a serious campaign, but I am no longer making my candidacy conditional on having done so. In any event, please email davidaslindsay@hotmail.com. Very many thanks.